[T-Bird45]

A interesting story of the SNAFUs that can occur in the fog of war. Glad the men made it back to tell the story...:-)...definitely worth a click-thru to the full story.

[Oatka]

Not comical, but a touch of humanity in the latter days of the war. Dunno if it was in one of Ambrose’s books, but there was an incident where an ambulance full of wounded near the front lines in Germany took a wrong turn and ran into a German roadblock. They thought they had had it.

The Germans looked ‘em over, checked out the wounded, and told them to get the Hell back down the road.

A couple of hours later a U.S. truck approached the roadblock but stopped a couple of hundred yards short. The GIs got out and unloaded a couple of boxes, then turned around and took off.

The suspicious Germans gingerly approached the boxes, figuring they might be booby-trapped. In the end, they opened them up and found them full of U.S. cigarettes.

[SunkenCiv]

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[central_va]

Not aware of any cargo aircraft during wwii that could carry an assmebled jeep and then roll it off quickly. Not even a c-46. Sounds fishy.